Mir Quasem Ali

Mir Quasem Ali (1952-) was a leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. On 2 November 2014 he was sentenced to death by Bangladesh for war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Biography
Mir Quasem Ali was born in 1952 in the Manikganj District of East Pakistan (present-day central Bangladesh) to a family of Sunni Muslim Bengalis. In 1971 he was a freshman physics student at the University of Chittagong, and he became a leader of al-Badr during the Bangladesh Liberation War. In 2014, he was charged with murder and kidnapping, among other crimes, and he was sentenced to death.